Improvement in device for seizing animals



@sont `13A NAIEL FAs'IG,A or ROWSBURG,"d oHio,

` Lam Poom: No. 89,922, dated Moy 11,1869,

IMPROVEMENT IN DEVEIICE FOR SEIZING- ANIMALS.

, 'flhe Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of theame.

To all whom it may bonoem: t

Be it known that I, DANIEL FASIG, of Rowshur inthe county of Ashland, and Stategof Ohio, have invented a new and improved `Device for Seizing Animals; and Ido hereby declare that the following is,a full, clear, and exact description thereof,which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the t same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming partof this specication, in which the l drawing represents a perspective view of my invention.

This invention relates to implements or devices employed in seizing any `particular animal from a groupy or number confined in a' pen orsmall lot It is designed, more particularly, for seizing hogs, when `any one or a number' lis selected, and is to be separated from the main body for slaughter or sale.

\ It consists of a long rod, orhandle, A, bearing a l pair *of 4prehensive horns, B B, which are curved toward each 0ther, as shown, and are pivoted by the same pivot-screw or. rivet 'c to a plate, b, affixed to the handle A, as shown.-

The horns B are formed with extensions d, which begin from the pivot a., and extend backward in such a manner as to diverge from each other, as shown.

The outer ends of these extensions are pivoted to links e e, which, .in turn, are pivotcd to the end of the sameI rod f, extending along the handle Aand sliding freely in staples g g, one or more, aixed tothe saidl handle.

The rod f, at the end opposite the links e, tei-mis` nates in a handle, h, which is formed by bending the rod, as shown.

This handle h is' connected with theend of -the rod, or handle A, by means of an elastic strap or coiled'- wire spring, O, the' force of which is thus exelted to draw the horns B together.

In using this device, the handle A is held'yin one or both hands, the thumb of one hand being employed in pushing up the handle h, and thus keeping the horns open while they are brought against one of. the legs of a hog.

The thumb is then removed from the handle h., and

Witnesses:

` C. S MCENTIBE, J. E. CAMPBELL. 

